Bow before the mighty Javoo!
-My husband's Visa getting approved, and our marriage shortly thereafter. His permanent resident status was granted with relative ease, so more than anything I am glad to be done with that stress. At least until 2017.
-Watching my page grow exponentially. I'm still impressed to watch the numbers climb as we take a break for the holidays.
-Submitting a book proposal. I don't think they'll publish me, but it was a big step.
I graduated.
I started my Master's.
I quit my retail job.
I gained several other jobs.
I published a bunch of crap.
I released several game titles (my first attempt at game dev).
I left the country for the first time.
I went to three gaming conventions—one as press, and two as a special guest.
I met a stack of new people.
I moved on from a stack of other people.
1. Landed my dream job.
There was a lot of other stuff, but given the 8 years it took to finally land that job I still have to pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming.
Looking back on it it was quite the year.
It was my first year living entirely alone after Faris left (and took the cat in February. KING ROBERT ) but I feel it was good for me. I had a lot of great fun with friends including many of you fine people but also some hilarious stuff with some of my work colleagues too. I visited several major UK cities for the first time - Bristol, Leeds and Newcastle - all of which were much better than I had envisaged in my head and I also had the absolute privilege of visiting Rome too.
Hobbywise I took up experimenting with food creations (this makes it sound fancier than the actual chaos I left in my wake ) got a PS4, started collecting Funko Pops and did my phenomenally successful FFVII LP - the first video alone has 50,000 views!